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The devotee Kamadeva, who had passed the rigorous test by the gods,
Yoga Shastra, Third Light, Verse 138 | When he heard about his husband's vow taking, he also went to the Tirthankara Mahavira and accepted the twelve vows of a Shravak. | After that, handing over the burden of the family to his eldest son, Kamadeva himself started to observe the vows diligently in the dispensary. | One day Kamadeva was absorbed in Kaussagg (meditation). Then, at night, to distract him, a Mithyadrishti deva | came there in the form of a terrifying Pisach. The hair on his head appeared yellow and like ripe paddy in the field | they were. His skull was like a skull, his eyebrows like a mongoose's tail, and his ears were shaped like a ladle. His nose and both lips looked like a camel's, and his teeth were exactly like a plough tail. His two eyes were like two hot yellow pots | they were. His tongue was like a snake's and his mustache was like a horse's | was shining. The lower part of his lips was like a lion's. His chin was like the mouth of a plough. Neck | long like a camel's and chest wide like the gate of a city. His deep belly was like the netherworld and his navel was like a well | was. His male organ was like a python. His two testicles were like leather bottles. He had two long thighs like a palm tree, two feet like a mountain rock. Suddenly, his voice was like the thunder of lightning, terrifying and harsh. He had a mongoose in his ears instead of ornaments; he had a rat's | garlands on his head and turtle garlands around his neck. He was wearing a serpent in place of an armband. He suddenly became angry, drew his sword from its sheath, and raised his terrifying forefinger like a whip, roaring at Kamadeva | and said thus - Oh, you rogue! Desiring an unwanted thing! What kind of pretense have you made? Poor fellow like you | a proud man wants heaven or liberation? Give it up, this work. Otherwise, like fruits fall from a tree; so I will cut off your head with this sharp | sword and drop it on the ground. Hearing the terrifying, laughter-filled, threatening | roar, Kamadeva did not move even a little from his samadhi. Has the octopus ever been disturbed by the sound of the buffalo? When the Shravak Kamadeva did not move even a little from his auspicious meditation, the Adhamdeva repeated the same things two or three times. | He threatened again and again, but when he did not get distracted, he played another trick, | taking the form of a drunken elephant. It is true that wicked people do not refrain from doing evil deeds without weighing their strength. | come. He assumed such a huge and terrifying elephant body that it was very | high, like a black, moist cloud; as if the heap of falsehood had shrunk and gathered in one place. His terrifying, long, two tusks looked like Yama's mace. Raising his trunk high like a noose of death, he said to Kamadeva | Oh, you magician! Give up this illusion and come to my shelter! Live happily in my command. Some hypocritical guru has misled you into this delusion. If you still don't give up this pretense of religion, then watch, I will pick you up with this trunk-shaped club and throw you high in the sky, and when you start falling back from the sky, I will pierce you on this tusk, so that your body will pierce through the tusk. Then I will tear you apart like wood; like a potter kneads clay, I will trample your body with my feet; so that your tragic death | will happen. Even then, if you don't die, I will grind you in a sesame-sized mill and make your body into one lump in a moment. The mad | deva spoke such terrifying words, but the meditating Shravak Kamadeva did not give any reply. Seeing Kamadeva steadfast in meditation, the wicked deva repeated the same things two or three times again in the same way, | but when he did not move, he picked him up with his trunk and threw him high in the sky, then caught him like a blade of grass as he fell back and pierced him with his tusk. After that, he crushed him with his feet. What evil deeds do not the enemies of religious deeds do? But the great being Kamadeva endured all this patiently. He was like a mountain | unmoved. He did not lose his steadiness even a little. Even when such calamities befell him, he did not get distracted from his meditation, then the arrogant Adhamdeva took the form of a snake. And as before, he tried to frighten Kamadeva again. But the patient man was absorbed in his meditation. He did not get scared, he did not waver. His words were ineffective and futile
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320| SR No. | 002418 |
| Book Title | Yogshastra |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Jayanandvijay |
| Publisher | Lehar Kundan Group |
| Publication Year | |
| Total Pages | 494 |
| Language | Sanskrit, Hindi |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari |
| File Size | 24 MB |